Judge — December 19, 1896 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Christmas Judge. No Christmas-tree from out the wood can Roger have this day, His father, sympathe in thought a little whil For all about the sly Pequods are waiting for the fray. Then the churn.dasher seizes, with a happy, knowing smi sb B35 Ahi tad AB asa And, dressing it with cloak and hat, above the stockade high Then back to waiting wife and child he brings a Christmas-tree, He holds it while the warriors’ barbs into it swiftly fly. And Roger claps his chubby hands and shouts aloud with glee. LITTLE ROGER’S CHRISTMAS-TREE, comicbooks.com | |